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imagine for a second, a single consciousness, which is the only one in all of existence, for eternity. What would be its purpose? what would be the point of anything it did, or communicated? would there be any right or wrong? better or worse? moral or immoral?.... Now imagine that that consciousness represents all of existence (which would mean all of existence in all of existence .... like 1/1). So all of this existence, in all of this time, is really just one big car ride, with no destination or end phenomenon.... so I ask you again... What would be its purpose? what would be the point of anything it did, or communicated? would there be any right or wrong? better or worse? moral or immoral?

The idea that a single conciousness represents all of existance is not a facet of nihilism.

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the thin-ness of the sharp crease, that you may fold one into, can approach the infinitessimality as an approximation of zero; it is an effort to construe, but easy to understand the benfit of such mastery.

"Nihilism in philosophyThough the term nihilism was first popularized by Ivan Turgenev (see below), it was first introduced into philosophical discourse by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819), who used the term to characterize rationalism, and in particular Immanuel Kant's "critical" philosophy in order to carry out a reductio ad absurdum according to which all rationalism (philosophy as criticism) reduces to nihilism, and thus it should be avoided and replaced with a return to some type of faith and revelation.

Friedrich Nietzsche's later work was obsessed with nihilism. Book One of The Will to Power, which consists of an arrangement of selections from Nietzsche's notebooks from 1883 to 1888, is entitled "European Nihilism," which he calls "the problem of the nineteenth century." Nietzsche characterized nihilism as emptying the world and especially human existence of meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value.

Though derided by some as nihilistic, postmodernism can be contrasted with the above formulation of nihilism in that nihilism tends toward defeatism, while postmodern philosophers tend to find strength and reason for celebration in the varied and unique human relationships it explores. Nihilism can also readily be compared to skepticism as both reject claims to knowledge and truth, though skepticism does not necessarily come to any conclusions about the reality of moral concepts nor does it deal so intimately with questions about the meaning of an existence without knowable truth."

--------------------"Their is one overriding question that concerns us all: How can we get out of the fatal groove we are in, the one that is leading towards the brink?" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Aye, an approximation of zero, that is useful for some purposes, no doubt. But still, strictly speaking, not quite zero. This is why I got angry as an adolescent and chucked a brick through mathematics' window... I refused to accept that .9999 repeating is = to 1.

--------------------"Their is one overriding question that concerns us all: How can we get out of the fatal groove we are in, the one that is leading towards the brink?" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"We may not be capable of eradicating the corruption of reason, but we must nevertheless counter it at every instance and with every means." Dan Agin
"Politics is the best religion and politicians are the worst followers."
-It's ok to trip as long as you don't fall.
-Substance over Style.
-Common sense is uncommon.

The only thing infinite is human ignorance and the lack of understanding; beyond that their may be a large scale of anything, which places it in the seemingly infinite multitude of things. But it isn't infinite. Concepts and mathematics can be infinite... only because we define limitations on them which allow them to be such. (sequences and series as an example)

Go to a beach, count all the grains of sand, it may seem infinite... but alas the number is growing by the day, but in an instant of time, their is a finite number associated with the amount.

--------------------"Their is one overriding question that concerns us all: How can we get out of the fatal groove we are in, the one that is leading towards the brink?" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"We may not be capable of eradicating the corruption of reason, but we must nevertheless counter it at every instance and with every means." Dan Agin
"Politics is the best religion and politicians are the worst followers."
-It's ok to trip as long as you don't fall.
-Substance over Style.
-Common sense is uncommon.

First... i gave the analogy of one single lone consciousness in all of existence to relate a viewpoint of the scope of everything. Maybe a better analogy would be a Football league, which had only one team.. who would they play, what would be the point of even going on the field, who would come to watch that?I dont think there is any defeatism in nihilism at all. In fact it is quite the contrary. If there is no absolute purpose or goal for existence as a whole, then why not just experience and live everything to its fullest and appreciate that there is no universal expectations of us to liev up to, only to just be. From this you can either choose to play into the fake constructed ideology of existence, or realize it is just a never ending game with no villain, protagonist, or end and go about your own existence just playing the game.

--------------------"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda